Re: What's the name of this library? (was: Re: autotools transition report: v 28.07)

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:29:51PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> 
> |  Obviate the need
> |    for bizarre little tweaks all through the CVS server backend scripts
> |    because "++" isn't matched by the normal word regex.  Obviate the
> |    current problems.
> 
> come on, we have been having the drivers called "c++" and "g++" for
> nearly two decades.  
> Tools that cannot cope  with libstdc++ are broken and should be fixed :-/

"+" is not part of any natural language alphabet.  So when a regex is built
that looks for <word><not-a-word><word>, the "++" ends up in the wrong part
of the match.  That's the actual form of the problems that the gcc.gnu.org
admins have faced over the years.  Getting that "fixed" I leave to you.  :-)

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